I am talking about taking sick leave.
One one side we have the 'ladies in purchase ledger' who leap on anyone who approaches with so much a slight cough and cluck at them, insisting that they are too ill to be in work and 'their health is more important than work' (which is clearly true if they had something actually wrong with them). One of these women recently took 3 weeks off work because she had a bad cold and 'thought it might be' swine flu. And we have recently had to introduce the Bradford Factor to combat excessive amounts of sick leave in the factory (usually Mondays or weekends strangely) that was causing major problems.
On the other hand we have the stubborn stalwarts souls like my boss who insisted on hobbling into work 3 weeks after a hip transplant. And is now at home due to a mini-stroke which has left him with impaired vision in his right eye but...IS STILL WORKING FROM HOME.... inspite of being roundly told off by the GP. The only reason he isn't actually in work is because he can't drive and his wife won't drive him!
Why do we have such different perceptions of illness?
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to think there has to be a happy medium between the cluckers and the hard men?
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OrmIrian · 20/10/2009 10:50
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